Clues for the word "TRAGEDY"
We've had 54 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 74 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on September 02, 2025.
Definition of tragedy
- n. - A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.
- n. - A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.
Referring Clues
- Euripidean work
- Hard blow
- "Timon of Athens," e.g.
- "Hamlet" or "King Lear"
- It "delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain," according to Shelley
- Drama genre
- Shakespeare work
- "Coriolanus" or "Richard III"
- "Hamlet" genre
- Play genre
- "Coriolanus" or "King Lear"
- Comedy's counterpart
- Serious drama
- 'Hamlet,' for one
- Disaster
- "Julius Caesar," for one
- Anagram of "gyrated"
- Work that ends badly
- Sad story
- Calamity
- "Antigone" or "Elektra"
- "Antigone," e.g.
- Attempt to take in old drama?
- Essay about old play such as King Lear
- "Hamlet" or "King Lear," for example
- Turn old when locked up for comedy? On the contrary
- Terribly sad thing
- Gyrated (anag)
- Concealing the old crack was responsible for the disaster
- The shot showing the old interior is very sad
- Ancient in shot at Hamlet, perhaps
- See 11
- Shot the old held captive inside: it's very sad
- Essay is about old play by Shakespeare, for example
- Type of play
- Serious disaster
- Great work, primarily drama, ending in misery?
- Matured during attempt to produce Hamlet, for example
- King Lear, for example, got old beset by trial
- Hear evidence about old disaster
- Hear about old shocking event
- Hear about old disaster
- Essay about getting on - read it and weep!
- Shakespearean genre
- Get a dry sort of play
- Type of drama
- "Hamlet" or "Julius Caesar"
- Sad play
- Attempt to take in old drama?
- Macbeth may be back, for example with pictures - extremely dreary
- Sad attempt to accommodate the old
- An essay about the old that's very sad
- "Hamlet" or "Oedipus Rex"
- Genre of "Hamlet" and "Oedipus Rex"
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - September 02, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 16, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - December 27, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - October 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - August 06, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 16, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - May 18, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 20, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 12, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - August 09, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 19, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 14, 2022
- USA Today - September 28, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 22, 2022
- Family Time - September 04, 2022
- Daily Quick - August 24, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 31, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 30, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - July 16, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 07, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - January 06, 2018
- Mirror Quick - January 05, 2018
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 08, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - November 03, 2017
- Daily Cryptic - August 09, 2017
- And in 44 more crossword puzzles...